Where to play online?

USArmyParatrooper

Only Chess

29 Sep 13

USArmyParatrooper

Joined: 10 May 09
Moves: 13341

29 Sep 13

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Where is a good place to play live chess that is NOT Yahoo? There is far, far too much cheating on Yahoo.

st40

Joined: 05 Nov 08
Moves: 13417

29 Sep 13

I play on chesscube.com

HikaruShindo

Joined: 08 Apr 12
Moves: 68553

29 Sep 13

I also play there. Another little-known good site is Red Hot Pawn.

USArmyParatrooper

Joined: 10 May 09
Moves: 13341

29 Sep 13

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Originally posted by HikaruShindo
I also play there. Another little-known good site is Red Hot Pawn.

They also have this little-known problem of their live chess being down.

KilgoreTrout15

Joined: 08 Dec 12
Moves: 9224

29 Sep 13

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Try chess.com it's awesome, unlimited games, slow or live, no membership, and the forums aren't infested with liberal anti-west anti-christian anti-american anti-white hating trolls that slobber over the love of being *kewl* and uber-left radical.

Fat Lady

Joined: 21 Feb 06
Moves: 6830

29 Sep 13

I like playchess.com. It has the advantage of being a standalone program which connects to the playchess.com server rather than a website. This means that the interface is far better than any website based chess server.

HikaruShindo

Joined: 08 Apr 12
Moves: 68553

29 Sep 13

He never said blitz…

hedonist

peacedog's keeper

Joined: 15 Jan 11
Moves: 13975

30 Sep 13

Originally posted by HikaruShindo
He never said blitz…

...but he did say 'live' 😉

st40

Joined: 05 Nov 08
Moves: 13417

30 Sep 13

I'm up for a game now and again on chesscube at weekends eastern usa time, I can be online in the evening, I play under the name jfxr242

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

slatington, pa, usa

Joined: 28 Dec 04
Moves: 53366

01 Oct 13

There is also chessgames.com but I play a lot at chess.com under the handle of Sonhouse strangely enough🙂

Pawnografy

Joined: 28 Jan 04
Moves: 12

02 Oct 13

Gameknot.com is good also and usually quite busy.

~~robbie carrobie~~

Joined: 26 Aug 07
Moves: 38239

02 Oct 13

Originally posted by Pawnografy
Gameknot.com is good also and usually quite busy.

FICS

free internet chess server!

download babas chess if you are a windows user and play

e4chris

Joined: 19 Jan 13
Moves: 2106

03 Oct 13

Originally posted by KilgoreTrout15
Try chess.com it's awesome, unlimited games, slow or live, no membership, and the forums aren't infested with liberal anti-west anti-christian anti-american anti-white hating trolls that slobber over the love of being *kewl* and uber-left radical.

chess.com only have a chess forum to stop that happening...

SwissGambit

Caninus Interruptus

2014.05.01

Joined: 11 Apr 07
Moves: 92274

04 Oct 13

Originally posted by e4chris
chess.com only have a chess forum to stop that happening...

That's why chess.com's forums suck. Just when a discussion starts to get interesting, someone cries to mods and they kill the thread.

~~robbie carrobie~~

Joined: 26 Aug 07
Moves: 38239

04 Oct 13

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Originally posted by SwissGambit
That's why chess.com's forums suck. Just when a discussion starts to get interesting, someone cries to mods and they kill the thread.

chess.com is essentially a blitz site, they are obsessed with blitz and chess openings, the best thing about it is the vote chess and the videos. I watched a great Yermolinsky video where he got stuck into people who play 'street chess', and call themselves tactical players.